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Video Shopping Startup Joyus Raises $11.5M in Second Round, Focuses on ROI of Online Retail
Do online retailers need to make it count for merchants?
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Mango Health App That Games Taking Meds Launches With Target Partnership
San Francisco-based Mango Health — a new mobile app aimed at allowing people to manage their personal health by tracking medications and nutritional supplements they take — is launching after a 16-week pilot program and a strategic deal with retail giant Target. The app rewards users with gift cards or allows them to make charitable donations for correctly following their medical regimens by using game design principles. Consumers can also check for interactions between medications, supplements and foods, and get dosage reminders. Mango has raised $3.1 million in seed funding from venture firms First Round Capital, Floodgate and Baseline Ventures, as well as angel investors Mark Pincus and Keith Rabois.Actually, Amazon Paid About $150 Million for Goodreads
Um, not one billlllllllion dollars.
Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm
He’s back, and this time the well-known entrepreneur wants to give you a digital charge card.
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Google Works on Launching Retail Stores
Google Inc. has been developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S., said people familiar with the matter, in another sign the company is studying Apple Inc.’s playbook for building a consumer-electronics brand.News Byte
Jingle All the Way: Consumers Loaded Up Their iPads on Christmas Day
Experian Marketing Services said in its latest report that online traffic to retail sites rose 27 percent overall compared to last year on Christmas Day, with top sites being Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Macy’s. Apple iTunes saw visits increase 193 percent from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, with consumers looking to load up various devices once they got them as gifts. The stats were less robust for Amazon, where visits in the same time frame increased just 24 percent, largely aimed at its Kindle devices.Voices
Holiday Price War Rages in Real Time
While shoppers jostled and shoved their way through the usual long lines for Black Friday retail deals, a new and more pitched battle was being fought online that promises to redraw how stores plan for their big door-buster specials.Lolly Wolly Doodle’s Brandi Temple Talks Facebook-Fueled, Real-Time Retail
Shoulder bows and ruffles as a social e-commerce phenom.
Viral Video: The Scott-Also-Isn’t-Sorry-for-Posting-These iPad Mini Spoofs
Let’s also lay the whole Ping debacle on the former software head.
Investor Reaction to CEO Tim Cook’s Dramatic Management Upheaval at Apple Will Be Delayed by Sandy
Answering the question, “Did Forstall jump, or was he pushed?” will have to wait out the storm. (But we think pushed.)